diff --git a/package/blindcoder/tsocks/tsocks.conf b/package/blindcoder/tsocks/tsocks.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7c7aa95fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/blindcoder/tsocks/tsocks.conf
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+srcdir="tsocks-1.8"
diff --git a/package/blindcoder/tsocks/tsocks.desc b/package/blindcoder/tsocks/tsocks.desc
index dcbf9cb6f..c3f82d876 100644
--- a/package/blindcoder/tsocks/tsocks.desc
+++ b/package/blindcoder/tsocks/tsocks.desc
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 1.7
+[V] 1.8beta5
 [P] X -----5---9 800.000
 
-[D] 3022267975 tsocks-1.7.tar.gz http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/tsocks/
+[D] 3270926537 tsocks-1.8beta5.tar.gz http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/tsocks/